How do you feel about the massive influx of users?
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2023
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Not necessarily a pain, you just have to model the data very differently in something like DynamoDB. Those views are secondary indexes.
Search, though, you're right. You'd be running ElasticSearch along side it and the cost and complexity starts to go up. Or just abandon having a functional search entirely, like Reddit did...